Norwich Could Be Coloccini’s Last Game For Newcastle

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

9:35am Saturday, January 12th, 2013

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The news of yesterday is simply astonishing, that the Newcastle captain wants to leave Newcastle immediately and return home to Argentina and play for a club he was on loan at from 2000-2001 – San Lorenzo.

Fabricio Coloccini – this could be his last game for Magpies And this just a week after Demba Ba made a hurried exit from the club to follow the money to Chelsea, and we could lose two of our best players in January, and we started off the month trying to strengthen the squad.

The big question is how can we replace Coloccini in January?

We thought there would be no way that Newcastle would let the Argentine International leave the club, but the news circulating is that the Magpies could agree to his request, and remember Colo is on £60K a week on Tyneside.

Exactly how we get a replacement in during the January transfer window is a very good question, and of course Colo has always been the settling influence in a defense, that this season has massively under-performed.

The problem is apparently due to the ill health of his wife, who has already returned to Argentina, but it’s hard to think of a case like this ever happening before – that a Newcastle captain requests to leave the club immediately in January – certainly it’s never happened at Newcastle.

The news is that the Newcastle Board will get together in the next day or two to decide what action to take, and if they allow Colo to leave Newcastle, we’ll be even more shocked than we already are.

We would think the best course of action is to tell Colo there’s no way he can leave right now, but that the club will reconsider the situation in the summer, when there’s more time to bring in a suitable replacement.

There are news this morning that NUFC are looking to keep Colo and Colos wife’s return is imminent. His wife had left for Argentina due to illness. My guess is she was probably homesick too and her illness was quite severe it seems. Collo wanted to reunite the familiy i think but it could be that his wife is out of the woods.

Injuries – Pardews fault NO BA leaving No Tactics – Yes Kids no good enough yet – NO King Collicini (gutted) – NO

For me if we get something out of today thats great, our season starts next week at home with a few players returning from injury. PS …We all support the same team black white …who cares. Changing the manager will not help.and Keegan is still my hero ..and I over 40 yrs old

Can it get much worse, Ba, Collo, one gone one supposedly going. The bench is lacking quality. We need experienced players in as soon as possible. The saving grace is we are in a transfer window, so hopefully players will arrive in the next couple of weeks.

would be heartless of the board to force colo to stay. He wouldnt be leaving unless he had good reason to. Forcing him to stay would be counterproductive to team morale and will be detrimental to his onfield performances. He needs to be allowed to leave,

If reports are true and Collocini DOES wants to leave NUFC because of his wifes illness then he will be a massive miss to the football club and could put us in some serious shit, but at the end of the day, some things are more improtant than football! And given the commitment he has shown and how he has carried the central defence for the last few years MA needs to do the Noble thing here. However, if it is the case that he has cheated on his missus – tough shit, you were a twat and now pay for it! HWT

If his wife is so I’ll that Colo has to return home then everyone has to respect that decision. Nobody surely can be that inhumane as to put the club before family.

Credit to Colo cos if it were me, and my family was ill, I’d have gone already.

Those are the options in my eyes depending on the severity of her illness. Let me go peacefully so I can be with my wife and kids or I’ll walk out.

It’s all still rumour and hearsay atthe minute so none of us know but if it is the case above, it’s settled, Colo is off and we are powerless to stop him and we shouldn’t even try if the board have an ounce of humanity.

His first season with us was less than successful, and he was slagged off continually on this blog, if i remember correctly ! Then came the relegation, after which a lot of players left but Collo and Jonas stayed on and helped us to bounce right back up to where we belong, In the Prem !

It has never ever been about the money for Collo, and after that bad first season with us he had grown to become one of the best defenders in the League last year!

Now i am reading conflicting reports on here about a lass in Cramlington, and also about a sick wife already returned to Argentina! Some of the personal attacks on Collo which have been written on here, are just i think, below the belt when the true facts are not known!

But, if Collo wants to leave i would just let him, even if he has a contract for 3,5 years! In the few years he has been here he has been one of our best players, especially last season! People should Stop slagging him off, on here, because i don,t think he deserves it when the true fact are not known!

yorkshire-mag – You’re not from the Bill Shankley school of thought then? (Asked by a reporter why some people seemed to treat football as a matter of life and death, he replied “Nay. It’s more serious than that, laddie!”)

The only way is the Cashley way, loves a gamble… Can’t even watch the match tonight am just going to wake up In the morning and hope when I check the site Ed’s headline reads

“Newcastle Highlights” instead of lowlights for once…

Come on Cisse you can do it today and on Colo he has been a great servant but may be a blessing in disguise as he is only getting slower, balder and shorter without that Afro and the age thingy magig. Hope everyone enjoys the game, one word:

hmmm… few weeks ago colos dad saying colos looking for a respectable way to leave the club now being reported his wife is ill. shes also flew half way around world being ill n all nd left him with their 2 kids. im sure if i was seriously ill id want the private healthcare in britain over argentina. it seems shes so ill shes returning half way round the world imminently … reserve judgement on this one though id be inclined to tell colo hes staying till summer at least.

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After having various cat scans and a full bone scan recently, I met with the medical oncologist yesterday for a review of my condition.

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